TREVELIN:
located 22 kilometers to the southwest of Esquel by the national
route #259, in the ’16 de octubre’ valley.
Was
the first place that the Welsh colonists chose to settle around
1888 where they established a true commercial center that embraced
Corcovado and Palena and Futaleufú in Chile
The
colonists built with stone the floury mill Evans the one which
gave the name to the town (Trevelín means “Town of
the Mill” in Welsh). At the moment it maintains their open
doors as museum and in the facade of the building it can be read
“Molino Andes y Cía”.
Trevelin
is a beautiful city of low houses that continues keeping the traditions
of its old Welsh residents in their Tea Houses.
It
has hostels, cabins, tourist departments, restaurants, campings
and sale of crafts, chocolates, sweet and regional cheeses.
From
Trevelin the most attractive trips are: 1) Lake Rosario, a spectacular
place to the south that has an indigenous village where sheep
wool crafts are gotten. 2) Nant y Fall, the first Provincial Protected
Area of tourist use in the mountain range, in whose forests there
is a path that allows to arrive to the cascades La Petisa, Las
Mellizas and El Salto Grande. 3) Hydroelectric Complex Futaleufú,
imposing engineering work that can be traveled through guided
visits. 4) River Futaleufú also called Grande ends in the
Yelcho lake in Chile and it allows activities like fishing and
rafting.
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